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Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
Kids First Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
Author: David Kirp
It may "take a village to raise a child," but most American families are struggling, with diminishing social support, to do the job on their own. While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. More and more childr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781586489472
ISBN-10: 158648947X
Publication Date: 3/1/2011
Pages: 288
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This book is for all those parents in nursery school that try to get their kid to skip grades because they think their kid is better than everyone elses. Seriously. This book is a guide to help the people that want to social elite their kid early. The intro alone is obnoxious: FROM CRIB TO COLLEGE. I wonder if the author actually even believes half of what he wrote. While there are few good points in this how to revamp your parental thinking book, I can not say that his main points are crutial in the transforming your kid's life process. If this book does anything, it points out the really obsurd parenting that so many of us mock. Don't waste your time with this one. Be normal. Let your kid play. If you want to save for college fine, but I do not think it wise to spend your whole lives worrying about your kids financial future. At some point in their lives they need to work too, not sponge off all your hard earned money socked away for them.


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